smb
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Like many people who have replied I find the translation rule unnecesarily restrictive. That said two things strike me about most of the responses.
1. The amount of information a person can obtain about another person simply by the books they find good is at once astonishing and disconcerting.
2. Almost every book written is in some way a philosphical work by the author.
Those two points stated and with the unnecessary restrictions of translation intact I submit the following.
1. On Liberty by J.S. Mill
2. Time Enough for Love by Robert A. Heinlein
3. Araby by James Joyce
4. Henry the V by William Shakespeare
5. Ordinary Men by Christopher Browning
6. Obedience to Authority by Stanley Milgram
Special mention to Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil but there is some question as to whether she wrote that in English or German originally.
1. The amount of information a person can obtain about another person simply by the books they find good is at once astonishing and disconcerting.
2. Almost every book written is in some way a philosphical work by the author.
Those two points stated and with the unnecessary restrictions of translation intact I submit the following.
1. On Liberty by J.S. Mill
2. Time Enough for Love by Robert A. Heinlein
3. Araby by James Joyce
4. Henry the V by William Shakespeare
5. Ordinary Men by Christopher Browning
6. Obedience to Authority by Stanley Milgram
Special mention to Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil but there is some question as to whether she wrote that in English or German originally.